{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an9.18/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an9.18","id":"suttacentral_an9.18","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an9.18/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, the observance of the sabbath with its nine factors is very fruitful and beneficial and brilliant and bountiful. And how should it be observed? It\u2019s when a noble disciple reflects: \u2018As long as they live, the perfected ones give up killing living creatures, renouncing the rod and the sword. They are scrupulous and kind, and live full of sympathy for all living beings. I, too, for this day and night will give up killing living creatures, renouncing the rod and the sword. I\u2019ll be scrupulous and kind, and live full of sympathy for all living beings. I will observe the sabbath by doing as the perfected ones do in this respect.\u2019 This is its first factor. \u2026 \u2018As long as they live, the perfected ones give up high and luxurious beds. They sleep in a low place, either a cot or a grass mat. I, too, for this day and night will give up high and luxurious beds. I\u2019ll sleep in a low place, either a cot or a grass mat. I will observe the sabbath by doing as the perfected ones do in this respect.\u2019 This is its eighth factor. They meditate spreading a heart full of love to one direction, and to the second, and to the third, and to the fourth. In the same way above, below, across, everywhere, all around, they spread a heart full of love to the whole world\u2014abundant, expansive, limitless, free of enmity and ill will. This is its ninth factor. The observance of the sabbath with its nine factors in this way is very fruitful and beneficial and brilliant and bountiful.\u201d","title":"The Sabbath with Nine Factors","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":270}